The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1887-07-28
TIE DEPARTMENTS.

MARYLAND.
The Department Headquarters will be at the
Lindell.
Denham, No. II, wants TO camp in one cor
ner of the Courthouse Square.
KANSAS.
The Council of Administration has adopted
for the badge of the Department TO be worn
during the Encampment, a grasshopper pin
with sunhower pendant.
IOWA.
Matthews Post, Is, Burlington, wants to
camp out with 40 men, or if no tents are avail
able then they will occupy house together.
MISSOURI.
The Kansas City Posts will attend in body,
and be organized into division under COM
mand of Capt. Brant.
Commander ID. C. Putnam writes to Adj't-
Gen. Gray:
We are glad TO know tina; the difficulties which
seemed TO hang about the meeting in 81. Louis are
satisfactorily adjusted, and we shall our best
efforts TO get large and enthusiastic representation
OF the comradeship OF Ohio to be present at that
meeting.
SURGEONS CALL"
The ex-Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons re-
siding in ST. Louis are organizing themselves
into a Medical Corps for service during the
Encampment. Ii has been decided TO issue
instructions 10 each Post visiting the city dur
ing the Encampment TO report 10 the commit
tee, who would give them all the information
necessary. A member of the committee will be
stationed at Headquarters all the week for this
purpose The Medical Corps will be furnished
the desired medicines by the General Commit.
tee, and arrangements will probably be made
with n number of drug stores TO make reduced
rates for prescriptions made out by Post Sur
geons.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS.
Capt. Lloyd q. Harris, Chairman of the
Committee on Hotels and Accommodation, ha!
issued a circular 10 all delegates and others en-
titled 10 seats in the Encampment, asking then
TO mako immediate application for quarters il
not already provided for. blank form Of ap
plication is included, on which the applicant
is requested to give the hotel or other place
where he desires accommodations the number
Of persons, the date of arrival and departure
SUBSCRIPTIONS To THE ENTERTAINMENT FUND
The st. Louis Republican says: 1.-THE fair,
story published in an afternoon paper last weel
in which il was stated that fully $4,000 of the
subscriptions 10 the Grand Army entertain
ment fund would be withdrawn on &C
count of the action of the GAR. in tn,
matter Of the Cleveland visit seems TO hay,
| again aroused the feelings of a good many
members of the Order throughout the coun
/ try. A good many letters have been received
here inquiring as TO the truth or falsity of thi
report, and the prevailing sentiment expressed
in these letters is that il the citizens Of st
/ Louis have such warm feelings against tn,
Order, then the Order had better stay away
1t is but natural that they should feel rathe
| backward in accepting the inequalities of sucl
AS the report would lead them to believe-aI
unwilling host. The official report OF the Chair
man Of the Finance Committee which was pre-
scented 10 the General Committee Saturday
shows that out Of the whole number Of sub
scribers only seven had refused TO pay thei
subscriptions, and the total subscriptions o
these seven persons amount 10 the insignifcan
sum of $3.50, and even all Of these subscriber
have not refused absolutely. This, of course
settled the question Of the truth Of the repor
/ mentioned"
The st. Louis RepaJlican Of a later dat
says: "The deficiency Of $3.50 in the Gran,
Army Encampment fund, caused by the re
fusal Of seven parties 10 pay the amounts the,
had subscribed, has been more than covered b,
a subscription sent in TO c. H. Sampson, Chair
man Of the Finance Committee, yesterday b,
the mineral and saltwater manufacturers O
the city. The list Of subscriptions, which wer
unsolicited, is as follows: